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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tuxedo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
wear
▪ Fight Club star Brad, 36, was planning to wear a dazzling white tuxedo.
▪ Some evenings, Mr Miller wears a tuxedo and conducts Beethoven and Bach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And tuxedos are definitely not required.
▪ He wore a pair of grey shoes, baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo.
▪ I mean by that a tuxedo, as I think you will probably know it.
▪ She draws a man in a tuxedo, places him at an angle on the page.
▪ Then a few days later we had opening night, and I was in my first tuxedo.
▪ Then he reaches into the pocket of his tuxedo and produces his type-written acceptance speech.
▪ They are in their tuxedos and ball gowns.
▪ What do you have to do other than see if your tuxedo still fits?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tuxedo

Tuxedo \Tux*e"do\, Tuxedo coat \Tux*e"do coat`\, n.

  1. A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York. [U. S.]
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  2. The complete semiformal evening suit, including the tuxedo jacket, matching trousers, and black bow tie, and usually including a cummerbund; -- the style of shirt worn with this suit varies, and the outfit may include a dickey.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tuxedo

man's evening dress for semiformal occasions, 1889, named for Tuxedo Park, N.Y., a rural resort development for wealthy New Yorkers and site of a country club where it first was worn, supposedly in 1886. The name is an attractive subject for elaborate speculation, and connections with Algonquian words for "bear" or "wolf" were proposed. The authoritative Bright, however, says the tribe's name probably is originally a place name, perhaps Munsee Delaware (Algonquian) p'tuck-sepo "crooked river."\n\nThere was a hue and cry raised against the Tuxedo coat upon its first appearance because it was erroneously considered and widely written of as intended to displace the swallow tail. When the true import of the tailless dress coat came to be realized it was accepted promptly by swelldom, and now is widely recognized as one of the staple adjuncts of the jeunesse dorée.

["Clothier and Furnisher," August, 1889]

Wiktionary
tuxedo

n. 1 A typically black formal jacket worn by men. 2 The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.

WordNet
tuxedo

n. semiformal evening dress for men [syn: dinner jacket, tux, black tie]

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Tuxedo (disambiguation)

A tuxedo is a type of semi-formal dress for men.

Tuxedo may also refer to:

Tuxedo (software)

Tuxedo (Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed Operations) is a middleware platform used to manage distributed transaction processing in distributed computing environments. Tuxedo is a transaction processing system or transaction-oriented middleware, or enterprise application server for a variety of systems and programming languages. Developed by AT&T in the 1980s, it became a software product of Oracle Corporation in 2008 when they acquired BEA Systems. Tuxedo is now part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Tuxedo (electoral district)

Tuxedo is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1979, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1981. The riding is located in the southwest section of the city of Winnipeg.

Tuxedo is bordered to the east by River Heights, to the south by Charleswood and Fort Whyte, to the north by St. James, and to the west by Charleswood.

The riding's population in 1996 was 20,095. The average family income in 1999 was $89,350, almost $40,000 above the provincial average. The unemployment rate was 5.60%. Tuxedo has a significant Jewish population, at 8% of the total. Over 17% of the riding's residents are above 65 years of age, and over 28% have University degrees. Health and social services account for 16% of Tuxedo's industry, with a further 14% in the service sector.

Tuxedo has been represented by Progressive Conservative MLAs since its creation. Former Premier Gary Filmon represented the riding between 1981 and his retirement in 2000.

Tuxedo (Metro-North station)

The Tuxedo Metro-North station serves the residents of that community and the gated village of Tuxedo Park, New York. Trains leave the station on the Port Jervis Line for Hoboken, 37 miles (59.5 km) away; travel time to that destination is approximately an hour. It is located along the Orange Turnpike segment of NY 17 almost directly across from the main entrance to Tuxedo Park.

Tuxedo

A dinner jacket (British English) or tuxedo ( American English, also colloquially known as “tux”), dinner suit, or DJ is a formal evening suit distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain facings on the jacket's lapels and buttons and a similar stripe along the outseam of the trousers.

The suit is typically black or midnight blue and commonly worn with a formal shirt, shoes and other accessories, most traditionally in the form prescribed by the black tie dress code.

In Britain, the word "tuxedo" often refers to a white dinner jacket.

Tuxedo (NJT station)
Tuxedo (vaudeville)

Tuxedo is a vaudeville with minstrelsy in which the song " Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was interpolated.

Actor and songwriter Edward Marble wrote and produced Tuxedo for George Thatcher and his minstrel troupe known as Thatcher's Minstrels. It played a tryout in Boston, Massachusetts beginning on August 24, 1891. The song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was introduced in this show.

Tuxedo arrived in New York at the Park Theatre (at Broadway and 35th Street) on October 5, 1891.

Tuxedo (cocktail)

The Tuxedo is an IBA Official Cocktail composed of gin, dry Vermouth, orange bitters, maraschino and Absinthe.

Usage examples of "tuxedo".

He looked out of character in the tuxedo that wrinkled baggily around his lumpy body.

Derek stood resplendent in a black tuxedo with a black cummerbund and tie, devilishly handsome and yet all he felt was gloom.

She watched him move about her kitchen in his partially unbuttoned shirt, maroon cummerbund and tuxedo pants, and found herself reacting to his nearness at the same time she puzzled over the strangeness of her response.

Outside an expat bar called the Fruity Ferret we saw a man in a rain-sodden tuxedo being head butted by a youth in a torn soccer shirt.

Just get your jammies on-or your tuxedo or whatever it is the undead sleep in-and get into bed.

His fair coloring and very blond, rather English good looks had been most pronounced, and he had appeared more striking than ever in the well-tailored tuxedo, which he had worn with the same kind of panache Jim possessed.

He moved in so close that the edges of his coat, the poofy satin of his pants brushed the thick cloth of my tuxedo pants.

Custer turned to see a man dressed in a tuxedo, his black tie askew, brilliantined hair hanging across his outraged face.

I felt a little underdressed, wearing only a suit while most men wore tuxedoes, but the feeling soon passed.

Two months after Ed Thomas met his end in a delicate dance of death with 30,000 pounds of rolling doom, on the fateful night of December 10, 1942, while having dinner at the Brown Derby, Clete Reet dining with the suave William Powell and the delightful Myrna Loy, with dancer extraordinaire Fred Astaire and the incomparable Ginger Rogers suddenly sat bolt upright in his chair and swallowed his tongue, whereafter he swallowed his teeth, his lips, his chin, his nose, the remainder of his face and skull, his neck complete with wing collar and black tuxedo tie, his shoulders, both arms, then his torso, his hips, his legs, and his feet, shoes and all, until nothing remained of him but a toothless red pulsing orifice.

He was wearing a tuxedo: shorn, clean-shaven, with a white boutonniere tucked into his lapel.

The area beyond the elevator was filling up with prehistoric creatures: a duck-billed dinosaur, an Eryops, an ancient tortoise, all moving rather stiffly, like people in tuxedos entering a subway car.

Clad in tuxedo and turban, false beard on his chin, this clever faker was calmly reading a book.

A press clipping of Devon Greenway, hair slicked back, dressed in a tuxedo as he shook hands with some politician.

Attired in faultless tuxedo, he strolled slowly toward the grillroom, where he knew he would find Commissioner Weston.